Essential Question

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Essential Question

• How has the spread of culture and innovations
  lead to changes throughout history such as
  revolutions and art?
• GHW.6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

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What is Culture?
Music
Art
Street Life
Dance

• Total of knowledge, attitudes and behaviors
  shared by and passed on by the members of a
  specific group.

Literature
Festivals
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Parts of Culture

• Society groups that live together and share
  culture
• Ethnic Group group that shares language, customs
  and heritage

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How does Culture Change and Spread?
Innovation
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How does Culture Change and Spread?

• Diffusion- spread of ideas
• Internet makes it instant
• Cultural Hearth a site of innovation

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How does Culture Change and Spread?
Acculturation
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How does Culture Change and Spread?
Acculturation
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Convergence vs. Divergence

• Culture becoming more alike
• vs.
• Culture becoming less alike

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An area where innovation occurs and then spreads
from is known as a .

1. Cultural Hearth
2. Cultural Point
3. Cultural Hotspot

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Which of the following refers to the spread of
culture?

1. Innovation
2. Diffusion
3. Acculturation

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Language in Culture

• Builds Identity among groups
• Dialects
• Spanglish

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Religions in Culture

• Monotheistic
• Polytheistic
• Animistic

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Major Religions

• Christianity
• Judaism
• Islam
• Hinduism
• Buddhism

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Believing in more then one god refers to..

1. Monotheism
2. Polytheism
3. Animism
4. Atheism

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Homework

• Pg 99 8

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Essential Question

• How has the spread of culture and innovations
  lead to changes throughout history such as
  revolutions and art?
• GHW.6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4